Belt-buckle



H. GROSSMAN.

'BELT BUCKLE.

APPLICATION F lLED SEPT.24 1920. 1 $4,961; Patented July 112,-192L WITNESS i I f I /0 W Mar/0w. I

HARRY GROSSMAN, OE NEXV YGRK, N. Y.

BELT-BUCKLE.

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Application filed September 24, 1920.

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Be it known that I, HARRY GRUSSMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York cit the Bronx, in the county of Bron): and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eek-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to belt buckles and has special reference to buckles employed for belts for wearing apparel.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a buckle adapted especially for dress belts, such as are worn by either women or men, and having the peculiar adaptability of serving as a covering or keeper for the loose or tongue end of the belt, making it unnecessary to employ separate loops or keepers for this purpose as in the usual construction.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a belt buckle of the nature set forth possessing several important novel and use ful structural characteristics; adapting it for the utmost convenience, not only in the usual putting on or taking off of the belt but also for the interchange of the same buckle with any desired number of belts of different qualities.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrange ment and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein,

' still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the rear portion of a preferred embodiment my improved buckle indicating the relation of the belt thereto as when worn.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal longitudinal section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the buckle detached from the belt.

Figs. tand 5 are transverse sectional details on the corresponding lines of Fig. 2.

Fig.6 is a longitudinal section, somewhat similar to Fig. 2, but showing a modified form of the buckle, the same being adapted for use in connection with what is commonly called a button belt.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 412,436.

Fig. 7 is a rear elevation of the buckle and belt indicated in 6.

Referring now nore specifically to the drawings and especially to the first five figures, I show a buckle of any suitable size, form, design or material but involving a front panel 10 which may be ornamented if desired but which has no bearing upon the present improvement. The side portions of the front panel include side flanges 11 which are shown as being substantially at right angles to the front panel and parallel to each other. Each side flange terminates at the back of the buckle in a lug or lip 12 and a bearingflange 13. These features 12 and 18 are shown as spaced from each other with respect to the same side flange 11 but lying in the same plane. The middle or other material between the parts 12 and 13 is shown cut out and bent inward forming an abutment 14L one edge of which bears substantially against the inner surface of the front panel 10, as shown at 15, while the opposite edge 16 of the abutment is spaced back of the said front panel. This description of each side flange and its extensions will be understood as being applicable to both sides of the buckle, and the same reference characters are used accordingly.

13 indicates a belt of any suitable material, thickness or construction. 7) indicates what term the anchor end of the belt, the same being adapted to be projected into one end of the buckle until stopped by the abutments 14:. The end of the belt is held thereby at a point somewhere between the end of the buckle and the middle thereof, giving free clearance for the passage of the opposite or tongue end Z) of the belt.

Any suitable means may be provided be lock or anchor the anchor end of the belt in the place iust described. For this purpose T employ a lever 17 pivoted at 18 in the side flanges 11. Said lever comprises a series of teeth 19 for engagement with the belt and arranged approximately at a right angle to the main portion of the lever which lies either against the anchor end of the belt or the inner surface of the front panel 10 of the buckle in practice. lVh en in look ing position the lever 17 is spaced inward from the keepers or lugs 12 so as not to in terfere with the movement of the tongue end of the belt along the spaces between the lever and said lugs or keepers.

lPatent-ed July 1%, 32211.

So long as the buckle is intended to be connected to any selected belt the lever con-- nection just described will be understood as being permanent, but obviously the lever may be readily swung around its pivots 18 so as to detach the buckle from any belt and connect it to another belt.

in applying the belt with the buckle at tached asshown to the person the tongue end will be passed around the waist and. slipped through the opposite end of the buckle from the lever, the outer surface of the tongue end of the belt passing into and through the buckle directly against the front panel 10. The tongue end of the belt passes thence over the abutments 14 acting as guides therefor and thence on through the space above described between the lever and the keepers 12 (see Fig. 2). Any suit able means, such as the well known gripping roller 20, may be employed .to lock the tongue end in adjusted position holding the belt as above stated against the front panel of the buckle and in such a position as to appear to be a continuation of the anchor end of the belt when worn. The tongue end is thus held back of and secluded by the main portion of the belt and the buckle, requiring no keepers, loops or other expensive and frequently unsightly devices for holding the tongue end of the belt from flapping or drooping. In this connection it will be noted that the keepers or lugs 12, in connection with the bearing members 13, are the only means to retain the tongue end of the belt in hidden position. The keepers l2 and bearing members 13 all lying in substantially the same plane constitute the means for supporting the buckle against the person or his clothing.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I show a slight modifica tion of my approved. belt adapting it for use in connection with a button belt B, the anchor end of which is looped through a bail 21 pivoted at 18 in the side flanges ll of the buckle. The front panel 10 of this buckle is extended. at the anchor end of the belt slightly so as to cover the loop or bend of the belt. The tongue 5 of the belt is passed through the opposite end of the buckle as above set forth in connection with the first set of figures and passes thence over or back of the abutments 14 and back of. the anchor end of the belt in precisely the same manner. The gripping roller 20 or any other well known means may be adopted for anchoring the tongue end of the belt in this form of the buckle.

There is a slight variation in construction of the side and back portions of the buckle. I show the abutments stamped directly out of the side portions leaving the metal, corresponding to the members 12 and 13, as a single continuous bearing flange 22, the plane of which is exactly the same as the plane of the members 12 and 13, and the functions of the singl flange 22 being the same as both members 152 and 13. In other words, the flanges constitute not only bearing members, taking the contact be tween the belt buckle and the persons garments, but also as guiding and keeper means for the tongue end of the belt.

I claim: 7

1. Theherein described belt buckle comprising a front panel, a pair of side flanges extending with the side edges of the front panel, a plurality of bearing and keeper members lying in the same plane and located back of the said flanges and formed integral therewith, abutment means located back of the front panel and against which'the anchor end of a belt is adapted to abut when being inserted into the buckle, means to lock said anchor end of the belt against one end of the front panel, and means tolock the tongue end of the back adjacent to the other end of the buckle, the tongue end of the belt passing over said abutment means and between the bearing and keeper means and the anchor end of the belt.

2. In a belt buckle, a front panel, side flanges extending rearward from the edges of the front panel, means to lock the anchor end of the belt against one end of the front panel, means to grip the tongue end of the belt against the other end of the front panel, means auxiliary to said locking and gripping means to cause the tongueendof the belt to pass back of the anchor end, and

means carried by the said flanges andserving as keeper means for the tongue end of the belt.

3. In a belt buckle the combination of a front panel, side flanges extending rearward therefrom, portions of the said flanges being bent inward forming abutments, means to lock the anchor end of a belt against oneend of the front panel and between the abutment means and the front panel, means to grip the tongue end of the belt back of the front panel, the tongue passing over or back of the abutment means, and keeper means back of the anchor end of the belt to hold the tongue end of the belt within the buckle.

1-. In a belt buckle, the combination of a front panel, side flanges extending rearward from the front panel, a portion of the side flanges being bent inward forming means to limit the inward movement of the anchor end of the belt when being inserted, means to lock the anchor and tongue ends of the belt in opposite ends of the buckle with the tongue end back of the anchor end and with the main portion of the belt and anchor end lying against the inner face of the front panel, and means carried by the said flanges at the back of the buckle serving as bearing and keeper means to retain the tongue end of the belt within the buckle.

5. A belt buckle comprising a front panel against the rear surface of which the anchor and tongue ends of the belt are adapted to lie, holding means for both ends of the belt, and abutment means to limit the movement of the anchor end of the belt inward when inserted into the buckle, said abutment means lying adjacent to said rear surface and inclined with respect thereto.

6. In a belt buckle, the combination of a front panel, side flanges extending rearward therefrom, portions of said flanges being bent inward forming abutments, means to lock the anchor end of the belt against one end of the front panel and between the abutment means and the front panel, and means to grip the tongue end of the belt back of the front panel, the tongue being guided back of the anchor end of the belt by means of said abutment means.

7. A belt buckle comprising a front panel back of which the anchor and tongue ends of the belt are adapted to lie, means to hold said ends of the belt in connection with the buckle, and abutment means carried within the buckle adjacent to the rear face of said front panel and against which the anchor end of the belt is adapted to abut when being inserted into the buckle.

HARRY GROSSMAN. 

